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Details about the
Area
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands. It is the largest of our core cities and is
considered as the UK's second city. It has a population of over 1 million people and despite it growing in size
later than many other uk cities, today it boasts a range of different manufacturing businesses, retailing, major
wholesaling operations and is establishing itself as a major business and conference centre of Europe.
Originally Birmingham was a small market town right up until the time of the Industrial Revolution. It was probably
down to the magnificent work of Matthew Boulton and James Watt, who invented the steam engine, the work of
William Murdock who was the inventor of gas lighting and Joseph Priestley who discovered oxygen that put
the city
firmly on the map.
A massive infrastructure of canals were originally established during the industrial revolution period to cope with
the influx of traffic and to this day the city still has a more extensive network of
canals than Venice; yet this
often goes unnoticed due to the extensive amount of shops, bars and clubs that dominate the landscape of the city
often hiding the full view of the canals behind them.
The City has several neighbouring towns and cities, such as Solihull,
Coventry
and the town of
Wolverhampton
amongst other
towns of the Black Country.
People from the area are known as 'Brummies', a term derived from the city's nickname of Brum. This originates from
the cities relationship with the motor car. The first four wheeled petrol driven car was built by F W Lancaster in
1895 in Birmigham and a number of motor manufactures were established within the area at one time making
Birmingham
a major motor manufacturing hub within the UK.
More Interesting
Information about Birmingham
* Matthew Boulton was born in Snow Hill (local) in 1728 and William Murdock was employed by him.
* Joseph Priestley was forced out of the area after a mob destroyed his home in Sparkbrook
* Lloyd's Bank was founded and established in Dale End during 1765 by Sampson Lloyd and John Taylor.
The Midland Bank (now part of HSBC) was also founded in the city.
* More than half of all jewellery products made in the UK come from
its established "Jewellery Quarter" manufacturing sector.
* George Cadbury began making chocolate in the city in 1824. However, during that period of time, chocolate
was considered an aphrodisiac and therefore not suitable for a lady's diet - today Cadbury is a major producer
of milk chocolate enjoyed by all.
*
Birmingham Town Hall was designed by the architect Hansom, who was the designer of the Hansom Taxi cab.
* John Baskerville who was the inventor of the "Baskerville typeface" used by printer's world wide lived and
was buried in B'ham.
* During 1940 two scientists, Sir John Randall and Dr. H.A.Boot, invented a device which was known as a magnetron
to produce microwaves in their lab at the
Birmingham University. The magnetron became the most critical component
within the microwave oven
* Nigel Mansell, the former F1 Grand Prix World Champion winning 31 Grand Prix events, lived in Hall Green and
worked for Lucas Aerospace in the area.
* The UK's largest National Sealife Centre which incorporates the world's only 360 degree transparent tunnel is
located in the city.
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